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authorPaul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>2012-03-04 00:24:20 +0000
committerPaul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>2012-03-04 00:24:20 +0000
commit23c2b99e9d23e726ede9442728272616e66d416f (patch)
tree80b69e1fde31e8c4a39ee43b57546a06f77de353 /README.template
parent405c89ba1e33e013f7e582e28f969fc3f39b9b2c (diff)
downloadgunmake-23c2b99e9d23e726ede9442728272616e66d416f.tar.gz
Convert all "`'" quotes to "''" per new GNU Coding Standard guidelines.
Fixes Savannah bug #34530.
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@@ -8,16 +8,16 @@ your operating system.
For general building and installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.
-If you need to build GNU Make and have no other `make' program to use,
-you can use the shell script `build.sh' instead. To do this, first run
-`configure' as described in INSTALL. Then, instead of typing `make' to
-build the program, type `sh build.sh'. This should compile the program
+If you need to build GNU Make and have no other 'make' program to use,
+you can use the shell script 'build.sh' instead. To do this, first run
+'configure' as described in INSTALL. Then, instead of typing 'make' to
+build the program, type 'sh build.sh'. This should compile the program
in the current directory. Then you will have a Make program that you can
-use for `./make install', or whatever else.
+use for './make install', or whatever else.
Some systems' Make programs are broken and cannot process the Makefile for
GNU Make. If you get errors from your system's Make when building GNU
-Make, try using `build.sh' instead.
+Make, try using 'build.sh' instead.
GNU Make is free software. See the file COPYING for copying conditions.
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Bug Reporting
-------------
You can send GNU make bug reports to <bug-make@gnu.org>. Please see the
-section of the GNU make manual entitled `Problems and Bugs' for
+section of the GNU make manual entitled 'Problems and Bugs' for
information on submitting useful and complete bug reports.
You can also use the online bug tracking system in the Savannah GNU Make
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ System-specific Notes
---------------------
It has been reported that the XLC 1.2 compiler on AIX 3.2 is buggy such
-that if you compile make with `cc -O' on AIX 3.2, it will not work
-correctly. It is said that using `cc' without `-O' does work.
+that if you compile make with 'cc -O' on AIX 3.2, it will not work
+correctly. It is said that using 'cc' without '-O' does work.
The standard /bin/sh on SunOS 4.1.3_U1 and 4.1.4 is broken and cannot be
used to configure GNU make. Please install a different shell such as
@@ -123,15 +123,15 @@ information:
One area that is often a problem in configuration and porting is the code
to check the system's current load average. To make it easier to test and
-debug this code, you can do `make check-loadavg' to see if it works
-properly on your system. (You must run `configure' beforehand, but you
+debug this code, you can do 'make check-loadavg' to see if it works
+properly on your system. (You must run 'configure' beforehand, but you
need not build Make itself to run this test.)
Another potential source of porting problems is the support for large
files (LFS) in configure for those operating systems that provide it.
Please report any bugs that you find in this area. If you run into
difficulties, then as a workaround you should be able to disable LFS by
-adding the `--disable-largefile' option to the `configure' script.
+adding the '--disable-largefile' option to the 'configure' script.
On systems that support micro- and nano-second timestamp values and
where stat(2) provides this information, GNU make will use it when